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  • Thumbnail for Railway brake
    (mechanically) on the vehicle's brake linkage. The activation of such a brake prevents wheel rotation independently of the pneumatic brake and is therefore suitable...
    36 KB (4,418 words) - 19:22, 5 February 2024
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    railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium. Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system...
    30 KB (4,325 words) - 07:01, 2 June 2024
  • controlled pneumatic brakes are a type of railway braking systems. Traditional train braking systems use pneumatic valves to control and generate brake applications...
    13 KB (1,515 words) - 11:37, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anti-lock braking system
    (which unusually had a Dunlop high pressure (200 Bar) pneumatic system in lieu of hydraulics for braking, nose wheel steering and landing gear retraction)...
    61 KB (7,499 words) - 20:34, 30 May 2024
  • The electro-pneumatic brake system on British mainline railway trains was introduced in 1950 and remains the primary braking system for multiple units...
    11 KB (1,583 words) - 22:06, 21 September 2023
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    digital controls. Pneumatic devices are still used where upgrade cost, or safety factors dominate. Air brakes on buses and trucks Air brakes on trains Air...
    10 KB (1,193 words) - 21:13, 14 May 2024
  • provides similar accommodation to a 2HAL, but is fitted with electro-pneumatic brakes" Ian Allan ABC, 1968 British Railways Motive Power Survey, p.15 "the...
    12 KB (542 words) - 06:24, 22 March 2024
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    Pneumatic tubes (or capsule pipelines, also known as pneumatic tube transport or PTT) are systems that propel cylindrical containers through networks of...
    34 KB (3,808 words) - 08:15, 9 June 2024
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    century, train guards still had to operate brakes by hand, from so-called "brake vans". The first pneumatic brakes were of a basic design, but before long...
    11 KB (832 words) - 09:52, 30 May 2024
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    friction material in the form of brake pads, mounted on the brake caliper, is forced mechanically, hydraulically, pneumatically, or electromagnetically against...
    68 KB (8,997 words) - 21:01, 9 May 2024
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    material in the form of brake pads (mounted in a device called a brake caliper) is forced mechanically, hydraulically, pneumatically or electromagnetically...
    21 KB (2,690 words) - 10:45, 15 March 2024
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    Meillerwagen (section Brakes)
    400 × 140 mm; Pneumatic. Middle axle wheels: Brake cylinders, 80/110 mm; drum brake shoes, 400 × 120 mm; Pneumatic or cable. Pneumatic brake lines: Steel...
    25 KB (3,597 words) - 22:38, 9 January 2024
  • Air-actuated electric brake controller This controller uses the air pressure of the brake system on a vehicle with pneumatic brakes to provide a current...
    5 KB (525 words) - 15:40, 21 August 2023
  • the "AB" brake. During the mid-1930s, at the same time the "AB" brake was being widely implemented, the pneumatic and electro-pneumatic braking equipment...
    9 KB (1,218 words) - 04:48, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yaw system
    order to accommodate the yaw brake pads and the pneumatic brake mechanism. The pneumatic actuator can be a conventional pneumatic cylinder or even a flexible...
    14 KB (1,896 words) - 09:29, 21 March 2024
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    bicycle. The spoon brake or plunger brake was probably the first type of bicycle brake and precedes the pneumatic tyre. Spoon brakes were used on penny...
    84 KB (11,359 words) - 14:46, 14 May 2024
  • a pneumatic short-circuit from occurring while the air exhausts from all rear service brake chambers. In order to control the trailer service brakes, the...
    8 KB (1,323 words) - 17:29, 23 December 2023
  • An exhaust brake is a means of slowing a diesel engine by closing off the exhaust path from the engine, causing the exhaust gases to be compressed in...
    6 KB (880 words) - 01:18, 5 May 2024
  • (Polish train designation: EP) English Premium brake, an abbreviation for the electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains Electrically powered...
    4 KB (421 words) - 17:06, 26 February 2024
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    the pneumatic brake booster and the master brake cylinder for activating the hydraulic brake and the trailer brake system. The pneumatic trailer brake systems...
    42 KB (4,595 words) - 18:52, 16 May 2024
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